SCI 207: Food and Agriculture
Before completing your post, review the Week 2: Food & Agriculture interactive video, which is designed to assist you in understanding more about this topic and to help you organize your post.
In the United States, we are fortunate to have an abundant supply of food. However, this abundance is largely due to advances in agricultural technologies, which have in turn created numerous concerns surrounding our food sources. Provide at least two recent (since the Green Revolution ended) examples of how the United States has increased its food production, and discuss how these changes have affected both the environment and food safety. Possible innovations you might cover include, but are not limited to: GM agriculture, polyculture farming, permaculture farming, vertical farms, small-scale organic farming, aquaponics, concentrated animal feeding operations, urban gardening (rooftop and vacant lot), not-till farming, precision farming, use of drones, and use of GPS technology.
Post should be at least 250 words in length. Utilize at least two scholarly or reputable resources to support your claims. Cite your sources in APA format. Quoted text should constitute no more than ten percent of your post.
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Food security is a situation connected to the supply of food and its access by the people. The United States Department of Agriculture defines food security as the restricted or unknown accessibility of nutritionally rich and safe foods or unknown capability obtain attainable foods through ways that are accepted socially (Kastner, 2011). The United States has been able to ensure food security over the years due to the constant advancements of technology in the agricultural sector. These….
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